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Basically I'm trying to reverse-engineer a theme that was developed by another guy. The problem is that I'm not yet quite firm on Drupal ground.

So I'm looking onto a management page for blocks and see a specific region, which is not defined in theme's .info file...

Can regions be defined elsewhere? Or inherited from somewhere else (another theme maybe)?

UPDATE: Since to inherit something this should be a sub-theme, which should be denoted by:

base theme = themeName

line in themeName.info file. But there is no such line in this theme... :( This undefined region should be coming from somewhere else...

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Drupal 7 has 5 default regions:

  • regions[sidebar_first] = Left sidebar

  • regions[sidebar_second] = Right sidebar

  • regions[content] = Content

  • regions[header] = Header

  • regions[footer] = Footer

  • regions[highlighted] = Highlighted

  • regions[help] = Help

Regions aren't inherited by parent themes: https://drupal.org/node/225125.

If I'm not mistaken you used to be able to define regions in theme_region(), but I believe that's no longer being used.

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  • Now that's weird - for theme to become a sub-theme there should be a: base theme = themeName line in themeName.info file right? But I do not see any... But the link you've provided says: "Sub-themes do not inherit custom regions from a parent theme. If you are using custom regions, you should copy the region declarations from the parent theme's .info file. Be sure your sub-theme's page.tpl.php file matches the sub-theme's region settings." – jayarjo Jun 24 '11 at 9:52
  • Parsed the whole Drupal 6 tree for a theme_region string, but found nothing... – jayarjo Jun 24 '11 at 9:59
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Ok, it turned out that it was the region defined in .info file after all. It's just that Drupal I was working with was using different language pack and simply silently translated region names were it could. That's what confused me - one region got translated and the rest stayed intact.

Might be useful for someone hitting the same problem.

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